We are in the situation where Electric Vehicles are presented as a major solution to our transport needs. To me this is desperately short sighted and fails to grasp a major issue in UK: there are simply too many private cars.
Switching to EV will do no more than reduce emissions at the exhaust pipe. A far better package of solutions would be to reduce the number of private cars on the raod. An easy win here would be to radically improve the public transport network in terms of pricing and routes available.
Whenever I look at using the train for a journey instead of the car I revert back to the car becuase it is both cheaper and easier. I am not talking slightly for either of these. If we visit my son using the train and taxi it will be 3 hours plus each way and £200+ for the train tickets. In a car it is £30 in fuel - which will transport both of us - and a door to door of about 2 hours each way. In the car we can obviously travel when we want, visit other people or places on the way, break the journey at a National Trust place for coffee and cake etc.
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